i think that the currently selected unit should be highlited more, maybe with a more contrasting overlay, or a pointer above.
is there a way to heal outside of battle? it's really easy to get ambushed by enemies, and if you are already at low health from a previous battle you can get steamrolled before even having a chance to do anything.
in general i don't like the entire ambush mechanic, it makes me feel like i'm not in control of what happens
the music adds SO MUCH to the experience it's incredible, it feels frenetic in a very exciting kind of way

Fighting feels a lot more deliberate than before, though I think I’d prefer FFX’s turn list thing instead of just showing current and next under the party. That way it would be easier to tell when the enemy is actually going to go, and you could even show previews of what effect each attack/skill might do to affect the turn order.

Is there a way to set a default marching order? Because it definitely seems like the Knight should be out in front all the time, the fighter doesn’t seem to last as long up front.

Seconding needing some way to show max HP, particularly for the player characters. I think I saw you experimenting with this on discord already though.

Didn’t have the patience to draw another skeleton, I’m sticking to an hour each for these fanarts, so I drew what I guess could be an ogre instead, enjoy:

Great combat visuals!

Some thoughts:

• combat ui requiring two clicks to use skills is cumbersome
• a stronger visual communication whos turn it is would help
• visual distinction between a single target and mutitarget in the dots (similar to Darkest Dungeon iirc) would also go a long way
• visual communication when a character has low health could be nice
• the music is too intense for my taste, but I see the retro appeal
• for me it feels bad if enemies get to attack before I have even a single turn to adapt
• the overworld is not aligned with cardinal directions, initially not obvious for me where W will take me (maybe not a big issue, as I got used to it pretty quickly)
• if all enemies in the overworld are passive (3x slime for example) it becomes quite boring

Overall a great prototype! Looking forward to next updates!

First run:
Great music. cute girls. Lost 3 dudes in one surprise encounter because I thought right click just let me pick turn order, but turns out it was skip turn. Seems like you want more strategy, I went boom boom all attack and it didn't go so well. Slime titled encounters are skeletons. Map movement is rigid, look into input buffer to let players queue inputs before the animation is finished.
I'm usually not a fun of diagonal maps where up input can mean either diagonal right or left, unnecessary complication. look into letting users use num row keys to input commands during battle.
1 is attack, 2 opens up skills, allows you to press 1-4 to input skill etc.

Art is really good. I was also really surprised when the camera moved in combat I thought it was fully 2d.

In the current state the overworld movement seems superfluous but I'm guessing you have more plans for it that just weren't ready for this demo.

I will say deciding when to heal is kinda awkward since I the main battle screen only displays current health and not max health.

Also the fact that this game has press turn wasn't clear at all. When I was playing I didn't really understand how many turns I was getting and why my guys got to make multiple moves per turn until I went to go write this comment and read it in your changelog below. Obviously a tutorial could help but I think having sound effects and more explicit UI would be a better solution to make the mechanic intuitive.
Really cool Demo, I'll be keeping my eyes on this one!

Overworld movement is an idea, one of the things that Darkest Dungeon lacks is proper choice in how to approach a dungeon but idk if it's necessary to have move points and turns, a simpler system where the player moves somewhere and maybe triggers an encounter or doesn't would be better. Similarly let player use their items whenever.

When it comes to combat there's really no reason to split normal attack and skills and there's no real reason to have an MP system (although there's no real harm in it if balanced properly with ways to rest). I don't want to just point at Darkest Dungeon and tell you "do that instead" but it's undeniable that your game is taking inspiration from it and that game does things the way it does for a reason. Sometimes less is better and unnecessary submenus that lead to one single attack actions are never better.

Cool looking game though, I wish the gameplay would be more interesting but I'm looking forward to seeing how it evolves.

You are ruining your beautiful game by putting this dogshit tactics hell overworld on top of it.

PLEASE just do a STS map. I cannot imagine a scenario where this meta game becomes fun. It's just tedious nothing at worst, at best it's exploiting pacman-ghost AI. 

Obviously I'm reacting this way partly because the overworld is unpolished (I can't click on tiles to move??? I have to use WASD... IN DIAGONAL ORIENTATION??), compared to the combat which is so polished and nice.

So it's good that you haven't polished it, because it means you can throw it away, which you should.

KISS: Just do a STS map where I click a node, choose 1/3, and go to the next fun combat encounter!

Fantastic action flow. I think both ogres and slimes look a lot like skeletons. It's a great start.